At a town hall meeting in Lady Lake,Florida,a woman said Barack Obama is a Muslim,ineligible to be president,violates the Constitution,and should be kicked out of office —and Rick Santorum did not correct her. The woman began:
Santorum responded that Obama’s “recess”appointments would cause him to “draw the line.”He said he may name that woman his first czar.
That’s much different than John McCain,who called Obama “a family man”on the campaign trail in 2008. For some reason,the compliment did not get McCain elected president.
In his State of the Union Address,Obama proposed job training programs to end unemployment. There’s just one problem It’s been tried and failed miserably. Here’s what one of the scholars at the Heritage Foundation had to say about the matter:
More Job Training Programs on Top of All the Other Redundant and Ineffective Programs – David B. Muhlhausen,Ph.D.
Tonight,President Obama called for the federal government to engage in new job training and employment initiatives,especially for the hard to employ.
Before Congress signs off on any new initiatives,we must recognize that President Obama wants to add several new programs on top of the 47 job-training programs already operated by the federal government. Further complicating the matter,the U.S. Government Accountability Office has concluded that there is little evidence that these programs are effective.
But those who observed a court hearing today in Atlanta say it could be the beginning of the end for the Obama campaign,because of the doubt that could surge like a tidal wave across the nation.
The comments came today from Leo Donofrio, who led the pack in filing lawsuits over Obama’s 2008 election and his subsequent occupancy of the White House.
He was commenting on today’s hearing before a Georgia administrative law judge on complaints raised by several state residents that Obama is not eligible to run for the office in 2012. That hearing went on after Obama and his lawyer decided to snub the court system and refuse to participate.
A decision from the judge,Michael Malihi,is expected soon.
The Georgia residents delivered sworn testimony to a court that,among other things,Obama is forever disqualified from having his name on the 2012 presidential ballot in the state because his father never was a U.S. citizen. Because the Constitution’s requirement presidents be a “natural born citizen,” which is the offspring of two citizen parents,he is prevented from qualifying,they say.
The historic hearing was the first time that a court has accepted arguments on the merits of the controversy over Obama’s status. His critics say he never met the constitutional requirements to occupy the Oval Office,and the states and Congress failed in their obligations to make sure only a qualified president is inaugurated,while his supporters say he won the 2008 election and therefore was “vetted” by America.
In Georgia,the law requires “every candidate for federal” office who is certified by the state executive committees of a political party or who files a notice of candidacy “shall meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the office being sought.”
State law also grants the secretary of state and any “elector who is eligible to vote for a candidate” in the state the authority to raise a challenge to a candidate’s qualifications,the judge determined.
The election of a president in this country has become anything other than a contest among qualified executives willing to work as a public servant to the American people,for four arduous years. Instead,it has become a) a huge,years-long distraction,used by the left to take attention away from the continuous flow of destructive bills,executive orders,regulations,administrative rules,and legislation disguised as judicial rulings from judges at every level of the judiciary;b) a huge business worth several billion dollars,that ties up thousands of people who should be doing something productive,but in fact,do even less of value than the “green energy industry;” and c) as a result of a) and b),keeps people from expending the time and attention needed to elect honest,capable,Constitution-supporting senators and representatives. A quick look at the current Congress and the state of the country should leave not a shadow of a doubt in anyone’s mind that this is true.
The simple truth is that it really doesn’t matter much who is president,if Congress has a majority of members who are honest,honorable men and women who actively support adherence to the Constitution. They are the ones who produce and pass legislation and budgets,not the president. All the president can do is make suggestions and sign or veto what is passed. Indeed,even “executive orders” can be neutered by Congress by refusing to authorize the funding to implement them. With a solid majority in Congress,vetoes can be over-ridden,and corrupt and lawless officials can be impeached,something which the current Congress seems to have completely,and with cowardice aforethought,forgotten.
Smith is concerned that flimsy language in the settlement agreement with Countrywide Financial — the mortgage arm of Bank of America — could be politically motivated.
“I am concerned that the terms of the Justice Department’s recent settlement with Countrywide Financial Corporation and certain affiliates (collectively,‘Countrywide’) will allow the Department to give large sums of money to individuals and organizations with questionable backgrounds or close political ties to the White House without any guidelines or oversight,” Smith wrote.
“If that is to be the case,this sort of backdoor funding of the president’s political allies would be an abuse of the Department’s law enforcement authority.”
So far,during the presidency of Barack Obama,the price of a gallon of gasoline has jumped 83 percent,according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
During the same period,the price of ground beef has gone up 24 percent and price of bacon has gone up 22 percent.
When Obama entered the White House in January 2009,the city average price for one gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was $1.79,according to the BLS. (The figures are in nominal dollars:not adjusted for inflation.) Five months later in June,unleaded gasoline was $2.26 per gallon,an increase of 26 percent. By December 2011,the price of regular unleaded gas per gallon was $3.28,an 83 percent increase from January 2009.
The price of unleaded gasoline never reached the 10-year high of $4.09 back in July 2008 under George W. Bush’s administration,but it did get close.
By May 2011,gas prices hit a high under the Obama administration at $3.93,about four percentage points away from the July 2008 high.
The U.S. city average retail price for one pound of 100 percent ground beef was $2.36 in January 2009. As of December 2011,that price had risen to $2.92—a 23.7 percent increase and a new peak. (Ground beef prices have risen every month since November 2009 – 26 months of price increases.)
Whole wheat bread prices from January 2009 to December 2011 increased about five percent (5.02 percent) from $1.97 to $2.07. (The inflation rate in December 2011 was 3.0 percent.)
Among the first 36 months of Obama’s presidency,the last four (September,October,November,December) showed the average price of one pound of whole wheat bread hovering slightly above two dollars….
An internal memorandum from the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) reveals that Justice Elena Kagan “substantially participated” in a health care case in San Francisco in which the Justice Department argued over the effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This raises grave new doubts about the appropriateness of Kagan’s participation as a justice in the Obamacare lawsuit scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court in March.
There has been a lot of debate over Kagan’s direct involvement in defending the PPACA while she was still the Solicitor General. Despite emails showing her initial involvement in formulating DOJ strategy to defend the legislation,Kagan has claimed that she had no “substantial involvement” (even though that is not the applicable standard). Attorney General Eric Holder claims Kagan was “walled off” from the case while her Supreme Court nomination was pending.
By May 2010,emails show that Kagan was well aware of the possible conflict,writing that the OSG’s message pertaining to her involvement in the matter “needs to be coordinated.”
When asked if his superior had played a role in consultations about defending the law,Neal Katyal,her deputy,wrote:“No,she has never been involved with any of it.” But email traffic suggests that far from being completely “walled off” from the process,Kagan did indeed participate in efforts to defend the PPACA.
A partially redacted email from Katyal to other OSG personnel states that “Elena would definitely like OSG to be involved” in preparing the PPACA defense and that he would “bring in Elena as needed.” Two months later,after being invited by Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli to a meeting of the President’s health care policy team to “help us prepare for litigation,” Katyal forwarded the message to Kagan,writing “I think you should go,no? I will,regardless,but I feel like this is litigation of singular importance.” Kagan’s response:“What’s your phone number?”
While there is at present no direct evidence that Kagan attended the meeting in question,other emails indicate her knowledge and participation in OSG legal strategy over the PPACA. For instance,when the Justice Department became aware in March 2010 that the Landmark Legal Foundation,headed by Mark Levin,was preparing litigation over the “Slaughter rule” that would have “deemed” the health care law to have passed the House through the passage of another unrelated bill,Katyal cc’d Kagan on a message admitting that OSG “could be in court very soon” and must have its reply brief “ready to go.” As further evidence of Kagan’s knowledge of the underlying legal issues of the potential case,when asked whether she had read Judge Michael McConnell’s op-ed on the unconstitutionality of the Slaughter rule,she replied:“YES – HE IS GETTING THIS GOING.”
But it is Kagan’s involvement in another case,Golden Gate Restaurant Association v. San Francisco,which reveals still more about the extent to which Kagan formulated the government’s legal opinion regarding the PPACA and why she should seriously consider disqualifying herself from the pending Supreme Court case.
In 2006,San Francisco enacted its own version of Obamacare. The local ordinance was intended to provide health care for uninsured residents and to force employers to make minimum “health care expenditures” on behalf of covered employees. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association filed a federal lawsuit claiming the new ordinance was preempted by federal law,the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
While the restaurant association won its lawsuit at the district court level,it lost in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The association filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court,asking the court to review the case. The Supreme Court denied certiorari, but only after it requested the Solicitor General to express the views of the United States. In May of 2010,the OSG filed an amicus brief telling the Supreme Court that it should not take the case.
The amicus brief contains an extensive discussion of the Obamacare legislation. In fact,the OSG’s arguments on the PPACA take up at least six pages—almost half of the 13 pages of “Discussion” in the brief. The OSG informs the court that the Department of Labor decided….
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